This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy.

The New Transnational Activism, first published in 2005, shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space. This means that we cannot be satisfied with defining transnational activists through the ways they think. The defining feature of transnationalism in this book is relational, and not cognitive. This emphasis on activism's relational structure means that even as they make transnational claims, transnational activists draw on the resources, the networks, and the opportunities in which they are embedded, and only then - if at all - on more distant transnational links. But we can no more sharply draw a line between domestic and international politics in studying transnational activism than we could ignore local politics in studying its national equivalent. Understanding the processes that link the local, the national and the international is the major undertaking of the book.

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"-disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war's wake to change regimes or even overthrow states. Tarrow draws on evidence from historical and contemporary cases, including revolutionary France, the United States from the Civil War to the anti-Vietnam War movement, Italy after World War I, and the United States during the decade following 9/11.In the twenty-first century, movements are becoming transnational, and globalization and internationalization are moving war beyond conflict between states. The radically new phenomenon is not that movements make war against states but that states make war against movements. Tarrow finds this an especially troublesome development in recent U.S. history. He argues that that the United States is in danger of abandoning the devotion to rights it had expanded through two centuries of struggle and that Americans are now institutionalizing as a "new normal" the abuse of rights in the name of national security. He expands this hypothesis to the global level through what he calls "the international state of emergency."

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principlesdescribe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics.This fully revised and updated edition explores some of the major contentious events that have taken place since the original book was published in 2007, including the Occupy movement in the United States, the campaign for free elections in the city of Hong Kong, insurrections against Middle Eastern dictatorships, and armed conflicts on the border of the former Soviet Union. Comprehensive and empirically rich, Contentious Politics, 2nd edition remains a valuable resource for developinga more nuanced understanding of modern social movements and political conflicts for students and scholars.

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored &quote;contentious politics&quote;-disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war's wake to change regimes or even overthrow states. Tarrow draws on evidence from historical and contemporary cases, including revolutionary France, the United States from the Civil War to the anti-Vietnam War movement, Italy after World War I, and the United States during the decade following 9/11.In the twenty-first century, movements are becoming transnational, and globalization and internationalization are moving war beyond conflict between states. The radically new phenomenon is not that movements make war against states but that states make war against movements. Tarrow finds this an especially troublesome development in recent U.S. history. He argues that that the United States is in danger of abandoning the devotion to rights it had expanded through two centuries of struggle and that Americans are now institutionalizing as a &quote;new normal&quote; the abuse of rights in the name of national security. He expands this hypothesis to the global level through what he calls &quote;the international state of emergency.&quote;

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Den 34 år gamle forfatteren Sidney Orr har vært alvorlig sjuk. Nå er han på veg ut av krisen, og 18. september 1982 går han inn i ei papirforretning hvor han kjøper ei blå notatbok. Notatboka sporer skrivelysten i ham, og inspirert av en episode i Dashiell Hammetts roman Malteserfalken begynner han på historien om en forlegger som arbeider med et manus. I ni dager er Orr som trollbundet at notatboka, han er fanget i en verden med uhyggelige forvarsler og forvirrende hendelser som truer med å ødelegge ekteskapet med Grace og underminere hans tro på virkeligheten.

Verdens fremste eksperter på tekniske og militære ressurser blir konfrontert med en global krise i en av Tom Clancys mest rystende thrillere. John Clark, også kjent som CIA-agent fra Ryan-bøkene, er nyutnevnt leder av antiterrorgruppen Rainbow. Sammen med sine nærmeste medarbeidere gjør han en grusom oppdagelse: En amerikansk gruppe miljøfanatikere, ledet av toppsjefen for et farmasøytisk konsern, vil befri jorden for mennesker ved å sette ut et robust pestvirus på OL-stadion i Sidney i år 2000! Kun et par tusen aktivister skal overleve i en luft-tett leir i Kansas. Oversatt av Henning Kolstad.Tom Clancy (f.1947) er opphavsmannen til sjangeren "teknothriller". Siden debuten, Jakten på Rød Oktober (1986), har han stadig imponert med sine omfattende kunnskaper om moderne våpensystemer, teknologi og terrorisme.

Mens han prøver å komme over et ødelagt ekteskap, blir Robert Bellamy i USAs etterretningstjeneste, sendt på topphemmelig oppdrag. En værballong med sensitive opplysninger har styrtet i Sveits, og hans oppgaver er å oppspore vitnene. Han oppdager imidlertid snart at det dreier seg om en UFO med to døde vesener ombord.

Tracys fremtid ser lys ut, da en mafiakjeltring svindler moren ut av familieforetagendet. Tracy blir kriminell. Fra London til Madrid befrir hun rike fra sine penger, smykker og malerier, og for hvert kupp klatrer hun nøyere opp. Helt til hun treffer Jeff Stevens. Med ett er hun ikke lenger alene på markedet.

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Oliver Russell er en guvernør som har ambisjoner om å bli president, og rett før Leslie Stewart og Oliver skulle ha giftet seg, dropper han henne og gifter seg med en annen. Leslie sverger at hun skal ta en knusende hevn, men selv de beste planer kan slå feil.

When faced with a human error problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn't they watch out better? How could they not have noticed?'. You think you can solve your human error problem by telling people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple Theory', where you believe your system is basically safe if it were not for those few unreliable people in it. This old view of human error is increasingly outdated and will lead you nowhere. The new view, in contrast, understands that a human error problem is actually an organizational problem. Finding a 'human error' by any other name, or by any other human, is only the beginning of your journey, not a convenient conclusion. The new view recognizes that systems are inherent trade-offs between safety and other pressures (for example: production). People need to create safety through practice, at all levels of an organization. Breaking new ground beyond its successful predecessor, The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error guides you through the traps and misconceptions of the old view. It explains how to avoid the hindsight bias, to zoom out from the people closest in time and place to the mishap, and resist the temptation of counterfactual reasoning and judgmental language. But it also helps you look forward. It suggests how to apply the new view in building your safety department, handling questions about accountability, and constructing meaningful countermeasures. It even helps you in getting your organization to adopt the new view and improve its learning from failure. So if you are faced by a human error problem, abandon the fallacy of a quick fix. Read this book.